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Why trade facilitation matters to Africa ?

Portugal-Perez, Alberto; Wilson, John S. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper reviews data and research on trade costs for Sub-Saharan African countries. It focuses on: border-related costs, transport costs, costs related to behind-the border issues, and the costs of compliance with rules of origin specific to preferential trade agreements. Trade costs are, on...

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Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization

Bond, Eric W. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

The author examines whether trade liberalization should create a greater incentive for countries to invest in transportation infrastructure. He pays special attention to the case of preferential trade liberalization between neighboring countries, where investments in roads or railroads are...

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Trade in a'green growth'development strategy : global scale issues and challenges

de Melo, Jaime - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012

This paper surveys the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country's development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs); (ii)'virtual trade'in emissions...

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Geographical disadvantage - a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thunen model of international specialization

Venables, Anthony J.; Limao, Nuno - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

The combination of distance, poor infrastructure, and being landlocked by neighbors with poor infrastructure, can make transport costs many times higher for some developing countries than for most others. Drawing on two traditions of economic modeling --Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory and von...

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Fossil fuel subsidies : approaches and valuation

Kojima, Masami; Koplow, Doug - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

consumers -- the inventory approach, which constructs an inventory of government actions benefiting production and consumption …

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Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport : what do we mean, what can be done?

Estupinan, Nicolas; Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Munoz-Raskin, Ramon - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Subsidy policies on public urban transport have been adopted ubiquitously. In both developed and developing countries, subsidies are implemented to make transport more affordable. Despite their widespread implementation, there are virtually no quantitative assessments of their distributional...

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Isolation and subjective welfare : evidence from South Asia

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

associated with responses to questions about income and consumption adequacy. Results show that isolation is associated with a … significant reduction in subjective assessments of income and consumption adequacy, even after controlling for consumption … consumption may seriously underestimate the subjective welfare cost of isolation, and hence will tend to bias downward the …

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Protection and industrial structure in India

Aksoy, M. Ataman; Ettori, Francois M. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

(income tax) and nontariff indirect taxation (neutral excise taxes, MODVAT, and preferably the value-added tax on consumption). …

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Demand elasticities in international trade : are they really low?

Shah, Shekhar; Mishra, Deepak; Panagariya, Arvind - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

The authors analyze the U.S. demandfor Bangladeshi imports for products restricted under the Multifiber Arrangement. Because Bangladesh is only a small supplier of these products and Latin American and Asian countries can supply close substitutes, the authors expected a high elasticity of demand...

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An integrated model of perennial and annual crop production for Sub-Saharan countries

Weaver, Robert D. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1989

off-farm employment; household consumption of crops produced on the farm; and household consumption of non-food goods … differential buying and selling prices, fixed subsistence consumption constraints, participation in wage market labor, smuggling in …

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